A millet-farming settlement on the Shandong coast in Neolithic China around 4,500 years ago organized its society by maternal ...

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The figures were unearthed less than a mile to the east of the third-century B.C. resting place of Qin Shi Huangdi, China’s first emperor and one of the most important figures in its history.